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Australia’s competition watchdog has claimed 58% of crypto ads on Facebook are scams; Meta says the data is old and unreliable.

Former president Donald Trump disclosed that he owns up to $5 million in crypto and has earned over $7 million from his three NFT collections.

Total open interest on Bitcoin futures hit $29 billion on Aug. 16 despite a decline in Bitcoin’s price.

Dek: AI-powered websites allowing users to create nonconsensual nude photos of women and girls were visited 200 million times in the first half of the year.

“I love New Zealand. I’m not leaving,” said Bitcache and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom on X after the New Zealand Justice Minister signed off on a United States extradition order.

The crossing of this indicator on two different timeframes has signaled to traders that short-term performance may be weakening, sparking fear in the market.

Robin Linus has unveiled a new whitepaper for BitVM2 and BitVM Bridge, two new developments that offer significant improvements to the original version of BitVM.

Onchain sleuth ZachXBT claims to have found a network of North Korean developers who have been working on dozens of crypto projects.

A tax on the energy used by crypto miners could cut emissions by 100 million tons a year, equal to Belgium’s emissions, say two IMF executives.

Low user numbers and sex predator scandals are killing South Korean metaverses, 3AC sues Terra, Malaysian crypto kidnappings. Asia Express.

Bitcoin price falls as demand for leveraged long BTC futures and stablecoins drops.

Depending on the November presidential election outcome, Fred Thiel said he would consider “looking outside the US” for Bitcoin mining firm MARA’s operations.

Multiple analysts believe that Ethereum price is likely to touch new lows near $1,600.

A total of nine out of 13 US-listed Bitcoin mining companies raised capital through stock offers in the second quarter of 2024.

In July 2024, Circle became the first stablecoin issuer to comply with the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulatory framework.

The stablecoin issuer said there was a risk of a “respective loss for the holders of AEUR tokens” due to FlowBank’s bankruptcy in June.

Other investors in the round include PayPal, Lightspeed, Galaxy Ventures, Wintermute, F-Prime Capital, Slow Ventures and The Spartan Group. 

According to data from DefiLlama, the Tron network has accrued $1.31 million in network revenue during the past 24 hours alone.

Low uptake of Grayscale’s Solana fund is an early indicator, she said.

“There’s a sense of inevitability” that NFTs are the start of a renaissance in digital art says 24 Hours of Art’s RD: NFT Collector.

After Black Monday, the stock market fears recession and Wall Street predicts an AI bubble burst, with Nvidia and tech stocks under pressure. Will crypto AI projects survive?

In his 1971 speech ending the gold standard, Richard Nixon promised to stabilize the dollar, but instead, nearly everything has gone up in price.

The Bitcoin price could increase by over two-fold based on a key bull signal historically correlated with price rallies.

Vitalik Buterin urged the community to send the memecoin token funds they want to send him directly to charities.

Cryptocurrency hackers have been returning to their roots to targeting centralized exchanges amid a spike in the Bitcoin price in 2024.

Nudge seeks to unleash a new DeFi primitive called Re: allocation Value.

Immutable teams up with Fireblocks to secure asset management for Web3 games, NFTs and DeFi projects within its ecosystem. 

OKX Wallet now supports blockchain links (Blinks) across all EVM-compatible chains, enhancing multichain transactions without switching platforms.

WazirX’s ability to restore balances and secure assets on its platform will impact its future and the security of the broader industry.

In this episode of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out, host Elisha Owusu Akyaw confronts the realities of Web3 hiring with Pedro Oliveira, co-founder and CEO of Talent Protocol.